From: Charles Comstock <cc1@...>
Date: 2004-06-19T19:03:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with FileUtils in Rake

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:38:20 +0900,
> Charles Comstock wrote in [ruby-talk:104116]:
> 
>>task :examples do
>>   rm_rf %{~/.ruby_inline}
> 
> 
>      rm_rf File.expand_path(%{~/.ruby_inline})
> 
> FileUtils itself doesn't do tilde-expansion.
> 

Ah.  Hmm.  Is there a way to force it to do tilde expansion if the 
functionality is available?  The application won't work without posix 
support anyway, so isn't this something we could assume?  Or is that an 
unfair assumption?  What is the preferred way to deal with this?

Charles Comstock